Night of the Comet
1984 Directed by Thom Eberhardt
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They came. They Shopped. They saved the world!
Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous "think tank," karate chop their way through flesh-eating zombies, and, of course, find time to go to the mall.
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I wish my life was an 80's montage of ransacking a department store after most the people in the world have turned to dust.......
fucking awesome
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Despite being rather popular with the Isaacs siblings in the mid-to-late 80's, Night of the Comet is a pretty dopey flick. I love the blasé attitude of the girls towards the end of the world, but it really does drag after the first act. Plus, the zombie threat is barely even a threat.
But, you know . . . I still like it alright.
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"Blonde, dumb and full of cum..."
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Live-Tweet. “I’ll be taking requests from all you teenage comet zombies on the…hit line! That’s 555-4487. Get it? 555…hits!”
Night of the Comet drags pretty heavily in the middle, and it isn’t very frightening or zombie-centric, but it makes up for all of those things by being spirited. Who can resist two spunky, funny girls who don’t let the onset of the apocalypse bum them out too much? Not me.
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I had never gotten around to seeing this before, and I can't believe it has taken me so long! I loved it. From the insanely well done 80's feel and soundtrack to the awesome apocalyptic scenes, I just thought it was immense.
Check out my full review here soon:
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Low budget, low brow 80s fun!
Ludicrous outfits and hair, zombies, cheesy FX and a cheerleader jiggling around whilst firing a big gun? What's not to like??
Who was DmK though? Shame we never found out...
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Endless generic soundtrack, overused neon, bright day-glow colors, mall montage, post-Dawn consumerism satire, video arcade expertise, thugs in Raybans, cold-war style scientists as the bad guys, and a montage of girls having fun set to 'Girls just wanna have fun'.... yep, it's a mid-80s teen genre pic.
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It's not that funny or that scary. More of an interesting curiosity than a satisfying film.
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A zombie movie that forgets to be a zombie movie and instead gives us an hour and a half of 80s shopping montages. Like "Dawn of the Dead" mixed with "Mannequin"
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The arrival of a comet in the skies, last since when the dinosaurs were wiped out, has disastrous consequences for the people of Earth. Those that witness the spectacular light show as the Earth passes through the comets tail are either turned to dust or become zombies. What survivors there are picked up by a military research group who plan to harvest the survivors untainted blood.
Written and directed by Thom Eberhardt this apocalyptic comedy which had the working title of "Teenage Mutant Horror Comet Zombies" stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney and Robert Beltran. -
Yes it's cheesy, but I still consider it a classic. It was the 80's :)
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Probably the only post-apocalypse movie to feature a shopping montage set to "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."
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I had never gotten around to seeing this before, and I can't believe it has taken me so long! I loved it. From the insanely well done 80's feel and soundtrack to the awesome apocalyptic scenes, I just thought it was immense.
Check out my full review here soon:
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Everything about this movie is SO 80'S that it looks like it was made in 2005 as a parody of 1985. Some of the scenes were pretty great, and I dug the set design/atmosphere inside the compound. Overall fairly entertaining and occasionally hilarious with a likable heroine. She's hot but not a complete idiot. There's something realistic about her tough-ness...she kicks some ass but it's at a level you'd expect a teenager who's somewhat familiar with guns to be, not a sudden change into a superhero. Pre-comet she seems lost, she cares about playing video games but is otherwise so apathetic that she doesn't even bother to find a guy she actually likes to sleep with. Post-comet she finds a…
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Low budget, low brow 80s fun!
Ludicrous outfits and hair, zombies, cheesy FX and a cheerleader jiggling around whilst firing a big gun? What's not to like??
Who was DmK though? Shame we never found out...